NEAL KNOX REPORT JPFO PROVES ME WRONG By Neal Knox
The 1968 Gun Control Act mirrors the Nazi gun laws of 1938.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May20) -- Last fall I reported to you about a new
book from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership which
charges that the 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA) was a direct copy of the
Nazi gun laws of 1938, except for the registration provisions and the
flat prohibition against Jews being allowed to buy or possess guns.
The authors of "Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny", Jay Simkin and Aaron
Zelman (2872 Wentworth, Milwaukee. Wis. 53207; $19.95 + $2.95 S&H),
had obtained and translated the German 1928 and 1938 laws, and laid
them out side-by-side with GCA '68. The similarities are astounding.
I was particularly struck by the sameness of the German provisions to
parts of the original Dodd bills which were later changed or
eliminated. For instance, the first Dodd bill -- like the German law -
defined as antiques guns made before 1870 (the approximate era of
non-cartridge guns).
However, a reasonable person could argue that the methods used to
regulate transfers of sales in both laws could easily be devised
independently -- So I wrote last October: "Did the authors of the 1968
Act dig out a dusty, brittle copy of the Nazi law and translate it
into Amendment 90 of S.1? Not likely."
Well, it appears I was wrong, Senator Tom Dodd (D-Conn.), author of
the 1968 Gun Control Act and its predecessor bills, did have a copy of
the German law.
According to a letter dated July 12, 1968 -- shortly after passage of
the Omnibus Crime Act, which contained most of GCA '68, but four
months before enactment of the full law -- the Library of Congress
provided Senator Dodd a requested translation of the 1938 German Law
on Weapons and returned "the Xerox copy of the original German text
which you supplied."
Where did Tom Dodd get the German law? When did he get it?
Zelman and Simkin, in an article in the May 1993 "Guns & Ammo"
magazine, make the reasonable guess that Dodd acquired a copy during
1946 when he was a senior member of the U.S. prosecution team during
the Nurnberg Trials of Nazi war criminals.
Why did he want it translated in June, 1968, when he had long been
pushing virtually the same law -- indicating that he had a translation
years before? Dodd's papers might answer that perplexing question, but
they are at the Connecticut State Library under limited access
controlled by his son, Chris Dodd, the present Senator from
Connecticut.
The hearings of June and July 1968 concerned not just the Gun Control
Act but two gun registration bills -- both of which Dodd opposed. I
don't know whether Dodd's opposition came from true conviction or
because he had continuously denied that the "Dodd Bill" was a "first
step" toward gun registration, and was made a liar when President
Johnson and Senator Joe Tydings (D-Md.) tried to push through gun
registration immediately after passage of the Omnibus Crime Act.
But a person close to Dodd -- who must remain nameless even today --
told me at the time that Dodd was very upset by the registration bills
and had told him: "That's a Nazi bill."
Dodd's unusual comment, which had banged around my brain for 25 years,
took on a new meaning when I learned that Simkin had found evidence
that Dodd possessed a copy of the Nazi Weapons Law, and wasn't being
rhetorical, but was stating a fact.
Represenative John Dingell testified during the hearings that the
Nazis had used registration laws to disarm "unreliable" Germans and
citizens of invaded countries.
He was upbraided by Tydings -- who was chairing Dodd's committee - for
using "scare tactics."
"Are you inferring that our system here, gun registration or
licensing, would in any way be comparable to the Nazi regime in
Germany...?" Tydings then said he was inserting items in the hearings
record concerning the German gun laws and confiscations.
Many months later, after registration had failed and GCA '68 had
passed, the hearing record was published. No one noticed that Tydings'
Exhibit 62, the translation of the Nazi gun laws, showed that he and
President Johnson were, indeed, trying to emulate the Nazi
registration laws -- and that with the Omnibus Crime Act and Gun
Control Act Dodd had copied the rest.
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(This file was found elsewhere on the Internet and uploaded to the
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